Higgins v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
50
cited by 50 later decisions
1
states following
February 1970
most recently cited
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 1970 · most notably Simmons v. Friday (1949), Cotton v. Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance (1952)
50 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.